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Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
International Herald Tribune
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BRUSSELS, Belgium: A head scarf ban for municipal counter clerks in the northern port city of Antwerp has raised protest from Muslims and women activists, officials said Tuesday.
The city council decided late Monday that civil servants dealing directly with the public should not wear visible religious symbols like a Muslim head scarf or a Christian cross. Some 150 mostly Muslim women protested the decision late Monday and the organizers said they were considering further action.
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Sunday, 14 January 2007 |
Deutsche Welle
The highest court in the southern German state of Bavaria decided on Monday that the state did not overstep its authority by banning Muslim teachers from wearing headscarves in the classroom.
Bavaria's Constitutional Court decided on Monday that the state law banning Muslim women from wearing headscarves when teaching was not unconstitutional.
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Saturday, 13 January 2007 |
Hampshire News
AN attacker tried to rip off the veil of a Muslim woman while racially abusing her, police said today.
The 37-year-old woman was crossing a busy park near Solent University in Southampton on Thursday when a white man aged in his 20s approached her.
He started shouting racial abuse and told her to remove her veil.
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Police said the attacker then attempted to take the veil off, but failed as the woman managed to push him and walk away.
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Thursday, 04 January 2007 |
The Guardian
Sarfraz Manzoor
The moral code my parents instilled in me could help counter this country's culture of rampant disrespect
In 2006 the gloves came off in the fight to define what it means to be British. Whereas the dominant response to the London bombings was confusion over how anyone raised in this country could commit such atrocities, the veil debate detonated by Jack Straw and the teaching assistant Aisha Azmi was notable for its muscularity. Sentiments that might once have been considered too insensitive were openly expressed. "The right to be in a multicultural society," argued the prime minister in a speech last month, "was always implicitly balanced by a duty to integrate, to be part of Britain." Behind these remarks was an assumption that integration is a one-way street. However, there are many things that the rest of the country could learn from Muslims.
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Tuesday, 19 December 2006 |
The Guardian
Joseph Harker
Tony Blair needs to stop lecturing and start listening when it comes to ethnic minorities. Here's what he could say
The following is a draft of Tony
Blair's follow-up speech on multiculturalism - or what he might have
said if he'd considered the matter more carefully.
My speech
this month about multiculturalism was well received in the press: I
seem to have pressed all the right buttons, and my tough talking to
Muslims and demands for minorities to integrate went down a treat. On
reflection, though, I think I might have been so keen to get good
reviews that I perhaps forgot about the people I should have been
addressing: Britain's minorities themselves.
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Tuesday, 12 December 2006 |
Black Information Network
by Simon Woolley
SIMON WOOLLEY of Operation Black Vote spells out why Tony Blair's vision of Britain is badly impaired.
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was the Prime Ministers protégée, Trevor Phillips, who was sent out to
put up a smoke screen debate to explain the radicalisation of British
Muslims.
Calling for a discussion about multiculturalism, he
claimed it had segregated communities, and must be replaced by a
programme of integration.
In a statement he would later have to
apologise for he infamously remarked, ‘we are sleep walking into
segregation´. Every national media outlet covered the story,
frightening middle England and empowering the British National Party to
their greatest ever show at the polls.
Ultimately, Phillips lost
the argument. In spite of his negative comments, two thirds of Briton’s
thought that, ‘multiculturalism enriched our lives´.
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Monday, 11 December 2006 |
The Guardian
Gary Younge in Minneapolis
The US is not free from Islamophobes, but nor is it a racially monolithic culturally static state like Tony Blair's Britain
Afew
weeks ago, Washington-based radio host Jerry Klein announced his own
very radical plan to assuage public fears of terrorism. All Muslims, he
suggested, should be branded with a crescent-shaped tattoo or be forced
to wear a red armband. The phones rang off the hook. The first caller
said Klein was "off his rocker". The next thought he was a genius. "Not
only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship
them out of this country," the caller said. "They are here to kill us."
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Saturday, 09 December 2006 |
The Observer
Peter Beaumont
Rather than belittling foreigners, the British should realise that our supposed moral superiority is a sham
There
is something deeply instructive about the present tut-tutting over how
the authorities in Moscow are restricting the access British detectives
are allowed to key witnesses in the Litvinenko affair. The lessons have
nothing to do with whether the Russia of Vladimir Putin is becoming a
dark, increasingly autocratic place that is dangerous for critics of
the state. It is. Nor do they instruct us on whether any of those
suspected of having a hand in his murder should stand trial wherever
they are found. They should. Finally, there can be little dispute over
whether we should press for the extradition of anyone involved. We most
certainly should.
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Monday, 04 December 2006 |
The Guardian
Madeleine Bunting
This week the prime minister has his last chance to nail the myths about multiculturalism, race and identity
Tony Blair has an important speech to make later this week. It will
probably be his last opportunity to influence decisively the public
debate on integration and diversity that has so dominated his time in
office. Since 1997, race and immigration have steadily climbed the list
of voters' priorities. They have now, according to Mori polls, arrived
in the top slot, of more concern even than health or education.
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006 |
Times Opinion
Mary Ann Sieghart
There are quite a few useful rules of thumb in life. If something seems
too good to be true, it almost certainly is too good to be true. If a
book is still boring after 100 pages, it’s not going to improve. And if
Ken Livingstone violently disapproves of someone, the chances are that
they are an admirable person. The London mayor keeps company with
Jew-hating, gay-baiting Muslim extremists such as Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
But he can’t bear the black, liberal chairman of the Commission for
Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips. Which is odd, as Phillips has so many
brave and sensible things to say. On second thoughts, maybe that’s
precisely why Ken hates his views so much.
This week, the CRE hosted a huge conference on race relations, which
Livingstone not only ostentatiously boycotted; he set up a rival, free
conference on race at City Hall. The mayor’s adviser on equality then
e-mailed the speakers due to perform at the CRE event and urged them to
drop out and attend the City Hall conference instead.
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